Business-plan

A lot of people are screaming that there is nothing really new in here. Sometimes you just have to be reminded of the basics. This is not a 7 figures in 7 days type of book. If you looking for instant wealth, look elsewhere. If you want to retire and not be stuck eating government cheese, then read it, follow it and just do it.

It reminded me of a couple things that I already knew, but just needed somebody to tell me again.

I used to think that income represented wealth. The fact is your income is not your wealth, only potential wealth. You can live off your income, but you can't get wealthy off your income. You only get wealthy by investing and the proper use of money strategies.

Dave Bach offers powerful money strategies that really work. The first and most important one is to pay yourself first. You must save at the very least, 10% of what you earn before you pay any bills. Isn't it amazing that Americans have such great difficulty saving 10% while the Asians save over 30%!

I know some Doctors who earn a 6 figure income, but are always broke and have nothing to show for it. $150,000 income is nothing when you are spending $175,000.

Bach also offers strategies to cut your mortgage payoff time in half. Pay off credit card debt in 2-3 years, not 5-10 years and more.

I'm with a company that does business in 10 different countries. Our company did over $40 million in sales in it's first year and has created several millionaires in 17 months. Some of the millionaires in this company highly recommend Bach's advice and live by it. That's why they are millionaires. EARNING MONEY IS THE EASY PART. KEEPING IT IS THE DIFFICULT PART. NEEDLESS TO SAY, I RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO EVERYONE AROUND THE WORLD!

I can't rave enough about Dave Bach's book. I also have his tape set from Nightingale-Conant which goes even deeper into the strategies than this book does.

My grandmother, who lived through the depression and experienced WWII, gave me this book. My grandmother grew up dirt poor(she had one pair of shoes for school). She dropped out of the eighth grade and yet she is one of the most well read people I know.

This book is so easy to read and just as easy to understand. I've started putting into action the principles put forward in this book and I will have $7,000 saved by the end of the year. I will most likely double that every year, if I keep utilizing the strategies in this book.

I highly recommend this book. Granted most of the advice in this book should be common knowledge. You could learn such things in a Personal Financial Management class; but it's the book's simple language that makes it a quick and easy read. Buy this book, then read it, then practice what it preaches, and you'll be on your way to not having to sit around waiting for the government to take care of you(which is a very scary thought because I don't trust the government to know or care what's best for me).

If more people would stop counting on Medicare and social security, we would all have more money from our paychecks to save and invest for ourselves, instead of giving our tax dollars to losers who don't want to work or take initiative and save/invest for their own futures.

It has great advices to make your enterprise spend less money in operations, taking advantage of new technologies to automate them.

My particular opinion of the book is that the content is really light, the software is for beginners, but it is not even a business plan guide software, it is an introduction to the office programs, to learn how to use word and excel. The Spanish translation is really poor, it seems to be translated from Babelfish. It does hardly speak about the aim of a business plan and has nothing to do with my expectations. Simply boring and not worth it.

Thanks to Automate Your Business Plan, I was able to develop an effective business plan for my consulting business. I found the software straight-forward and easy to follow, especially considering I am not a computer expert. What I really liked is that the main menu guided me through the step by step process of developing a business plan. Each step had clear instructions, a real example to follow and templates to do my own work on. The book which accompanies the software, Anatomy of a Business Plan, was a great reference resource and a good visual outline for the whole project. Handleing the financial spread sheets had always been a big problem for me, but the software answered my needs and helped me every step of the way to create a strong financial plan. I think every small business owner could benefit from this effective package.

As a tax accountant that specializes in helping small business owners reduce their tax liabilities and become profitable business, I highly recommend this book (and the business plan software)! At the request of several of my clients, I have reveiwed numerous other business plan books and software and find Automate Your Business Plan highly superior. Automate Your Business Plan walks the small business owner through the maze of all the areas that can either "make or break" the business. I have found that many prospective small business owners think that just because they are good at what they do (auto mechanic, salesperson, etc) that they will automatically be successful business owners. Nothing is further from the truth and with the help of Automate Your Business Plan, these business owners have a much better chance of success.